Friday, August 01, 2003

The Politics of Drug Wars

Drug war rhetoric that blames pot and crack for inner city poverty may comfort some hard working (alcohol consuming) working and middle class citizens, but it does so at a cost even to them. The police may not harass and repress them as much as they do inner city minorities, but the very rhetoric or the drug war now feeds the corporate assault on the free time of middle class Americans. Hard work becomes the all encompassing moral value and the solution to all that troubles the economy.
· Civil liberties and privacy for all are increasingly challenged [Commondreams]